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Darwin Glass from Tasmania Australia 3.29g Individual Impact Glass impactite To this day

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UNM) Electron microprobe analysis of a polished mount shows this meteorite to be an olivine-phyric shergottite

<10 µm-sized

25 grams in weight

The measurements are about 16x8x8mm

Darwin Glass from Tasmania Australia 3.29g Individual Impact Glass impactite To this dayDarwin glass is an impactite. Its a glass made up of a part of the earths crust that melted when an iron meteorite crashed into western Tasmania almost one million years ago. This impact generated a large amount of energy (enough to melt the crust, picture probably the equivalent of several atomic bombs), and created the Darwin Crater. Many craters around the world have glass which formed from the heat of the impact. But, the Mount Darwin Crater has

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